Soap Box

Recently the bloody, bruised, in shock, image of five-year-old Omran Daqneesh was flashed around the world, bringing home to all the cruelty and inhumanity of the political and religious war raging in Syria.

There seems to be no end to the conflict, nor even any concept as to how it could be brought to a peaceful conclusion as there are multiple combatants involved, fighting for multiple causes, some going back to millennia old blood feuds and vendettas, Russia trying to keep their puppet Assad in power, different sects of Islam trying to maintain superiority over the others and proxies being sponsored by outside nations.

For whatever reasons, the deadly conundrum goes on and on, the bloody collateral damage piles up and hundreds of thousands of refugees are trying to escape the madness by going to Europe and appealing to other nations, ours included, for asylum.

When you look at the image of this obviously traumatized five-year-old boy, his face bloody, his whole body covered in soot and a blank look on his face, your first inclination is to open the flood gates and let the masses of refugees in, to grant them safe haven from the horror and inhumanity they're fleeing.

But you have to then stop and soberly consider the fact that all the refugees are not like Omran Daqneesh. In fact, the very people who so abused this young boy, killed his family and left him alone in the world, could well be hiding in the ranks of those we so pity.

And they would like nothing better than to come to this country and create a thousand Omran�s, destroying America and Americans with terror attacks and suicide bombings.

Watch Germany and see what Ms. Merkel's profligate and downright stupid open door policy brings to bear. Already, the endemic Islamic disrespect for women is surfacing with groping and rapes and I wouldn't be surprised to see a spate of violent attacks to follow in short order.

Obama tells us that any refugees would be fully voted, but he also told us that we could keep our own doctors and the "junior varsity" team tells us that the ranks of the refugees will be infiltrated with operatives.

Obama hailed the Arab Spring as the Middle Eastern version of the Fourth of July, the hope of the people having a voice in the governments coming true at last, a democratic coming of age for a long repressed people.

But it was all smoke and mirrors and if anything the people in those areas are actually worse off than they were before the Arab Spring.

Then President Obama, against the advice of seasoned military and diplomatic advisors, pulled the troops out of Iraq and created a vacuum for Isis to come storming in, overwhelming a poorly motivated and green Iraqi military and gobbling up territory like an evil tsunami.

And now, the consequences of gross diplomatic and military mistakes have created a multi-million flood of refugees with no place to go and nowhere to turn and Obama wants to bring thousands of them to the continental United States, exposing the American public to the very real possibility of importing our very own intifada.

Anybody with half a brain knows that adequate vetting of these refugees is impossible since the countries they are leaving has no infrastructure and no capability of maintaining records.

Am I so cold and calloused that I would deny children like Omran Deqeesh a place of safety?

Am I impervious to his suffering?

Not at all, I just don't want to see the same thing happen to the kid next door.

What do you think?

Pray for our troops, our police and the peace of Jerusalem.

God Bless America

� Charlie Daniels

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